{"id":300,"date":"2008-09-12T22:29:21","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T21:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.com\/skodarallyblog\/?p=300"},"modified":"2008-09-12T22:29:21","modified_gmt":"2008-09-12T21:29:21","slug":"and-so-it-gets-a-little-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/?p=300","title":{"rendered":"&#8230; and so it gets a little closer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Preparation has been slow this year.  Most of the car is OK &#8211; there&#8217;s some work needed on the sumpguard and front crossmember and general tidying up, but certainly nothing like the hell that was the case last year.  But I&#8217;m determined to do it in a car I&#8217;ve completely built myself, and that means new engine and hopefully C\/R gearbox.<\/p>\n<p>Gearbox:  Despite a lengthy phone call and many promises, no progress.<\/p>\n<p>Engine: 3 weeks (and a bit) waiting for the crank and flywheel to come back from being balanced.  I finally picked it up yesterday, but unfortunately can&#8217;t do any work on the engine this weekend, but next week it should start coming together &#8211; a dummy build for clearances and so on will be done, and then hopefully I can look at installing it and getting it properly set up; it possibly won&#8217;t be as quick as the current engine, but it should run well, and have a good, wide powerband.  The plan is to have this done by the end of October as I&#8217;m off for a week then and can devote that time to the car.<\/p>\n<p>Regulations for Rally GB came out today, so entries are open.  It&#8217;s become real once more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preparation has been slow this year. Most of the car is OK &#8211; there&#8217;s some work needed on the sumpguard and front crossmember and general tidying up, but certainly nothing like the hell that was the case last year. But I&#8217;m determined to do it in a car I&#8217;ve completely built myself, and that means [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skoda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}